A former agent who described a 95-year-old dementia patient with his taser will avoid the prison after a judge ruled that he had 'completely misunderstood' the situation.
Kristian White, 35, was placed on a two -year community correction warrant on Friday after a hearing in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.
The ex-COP will have to perform for 425 hours of services to the community and will be supervised by a community corrections officer.
By implementing his decision, Justice Ian Harrison discovered that White made a 'terrible mistake', but that his crime fell at the bottom of objective seriousness.
During an earlier hearing, prosecutors pushed Justice Harrison to the prison for crime prison. However, the judge chose the side of the ex-officer's lawyers instead.
They claimed that he only made an opinion of the judgment and for that reason should receive a more mild punishment.
Justice Ian Harrison said that a prison sentence would be 'disproportionate' and that White is not a risk of recidivism or a danger to the community.
White was found guilty of manslaughter in November after he had plagued Clare Nowland in the Yallambee Lodge Aged-Care Home in the early hours of 17 May 2023.
Kristian White will avoid prison After having shot a fatal dementia patient with a taser (the ex-Cop and his wife are depicted who leave the NSW Supreme Court))
His wife was forced to protect herself against the penetrating camera crew when they left the court
Mrs. Nowland, a great -grandmother, held a knife while using a walking frame and ignored attempts from the staff to disarm her
Mrs. Nowland is depicted in her Cooma nursing home, just a few moments before she was beaten
The load fulfills a maximum of 25 years behind bars in NSW.
Mrs. Nowland held a steak knife while using a walking frame and had ignored attempts from the staff to disarm her moments before she was beaten.
The 35-year-old officer said “no, pushes it” before he fired the taser's hooks on her chest, causing her to fall and hits her head. The great -grandmother suffered from the brain and died in the hospital a week later.
Mrs Nowland's family attended the conviction on Friday.
Unsw Criminology Expert Helen Gibbon said it was very rare for Australian police officers to persecute for killing a person in the line of service.
“It is even rarer that the police are convicted of a crime in connection with a murder,” she said Aap.
White was removed from the police in December, less than a week after a jury was guilty of the manslaughter of Mrs. Nowland.
He started legal steps for an assessment of that decision.
